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Vladimir Putin is not immune from war crimes prosecution if the evidence points towards him, according to the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor.Karim A. A. Khan QC, who is currently investigating offences on the ground in Ukraine, told Euronews that the Russian president’s position would not allow him to escape with impunity.”Neither is superior orders a defence, nor is the official position of an individual as a general or as a president or as a prime minister grounds for immunity,” the prosecutor said. “There’s no immunity for international crimes, and one of the Nuremberg principles, as you’ll know, is that there’s…

Around the same time, I shared a video of myself with Bell’s palsy on social media. Having facial paralysis made eating difficult and suddenly I found myself chewing differently to compensate. I could no longer blink my one eye, which made it dry and painful. At night, I had to tape it shut to sleep. It felt scary and vulnerable to share this information with others, but I strive to be open about my life. Even though I felt a strong impulse to hide how I looked and retreat into the shadows, I didn’t. While hearing words of support and…

There is still not enough consensus among the 27 EU countries to establish a cap on gas prices, as Germany and the Netherlands joined forces to oppose the unprecedented move.The European Commission is expected to present next Tuesday a new package of emergency measures to curb energy prices and bring relief to millions of households and companies across the EU.European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said last week the package might include not one, but two forms of a gas cap: one focused on the daily transactions taking place in the EU’s gas market and another one targeting the…

NASA announced Tuesday that its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission successfully altered the orbit of an asteroid millions of miles away. Following analysis over the past two weeks since the spacecraft struck Dimorphos – the first time humanity purposefully changed the motion of a celestial object and the first full-scale demonstration of asteroid deflection tech – scientists found that the kinetic impact had shortened the moonlet’s orbit around its parent asteroid Didymos by 32 minutes. Before, Dimorphos took 11 hours and 55 minutes to orbit Didymos. The measure has a margin of uncertainty of approximately plus or minus two minutes.STUNNING IMAGES OF…

Polestar 3Courtesy: PolestarSwedish EV maker Polestar on Wednesday unveiled a new electric SUV that it’s counting on to expand its sales and presence in the United States.The new model, called the Polestar 3, is a five-passenger EV that the company describes as a “performance SUV.” It’ll launch with a 111 kilowatt-hour battery and a dual-motor configuration that delivers up to 517 horsepower with an estimated 300 miles of EPA-rated range.Priced at about $84,000, the car comes loaded with technology, including an Nvidia computer running advanced driver-assist software developed by Polestar’s part owner, Volvo Cars.Only one version of the Polestar 3…

Japan has finally fully reopened to international tourists. Many of us have been eagerly awaiting its reopening, planning the trip of a lifetime. And if you’re about to jet off east, why not add the remote island of Iriomote to your itinerary?The island was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2021 and here’s what it has to offer.Where is Iriomote?Iriomote is part of the Okinawa prefecture in the East China Sea, and is made up of 160 subtropical islands – many of them covered in dense jungle. Only 49 of these islands are inhabited by humans, making the archipelago…

Just say no. It was a message that many of us, particularly those who came of age in the 1980s and 1990s, were regularly fed. Drugs were—across the board, without exception—bad. There was the antidrug tour led by the first lady and Mr. T. The antidrug PSAs with Michael Jordan or Pee-wee Herman peppered amidst our morning cartoons. The after-school specials that saw sitcom stars thrusting themselves through glass windows after taking drugs (Helen Hunt, we’re looking at you). And of course, the most famous antidrug commercial of all time with an egg, a frying pan, and, in the updated…

The conflict between the Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox Church spans many centuries, and it has not been helped by the claims of the head of the Russian church, Patriarch Kirill, in support of President Vladimir Putin.One Russian Orthodox priest wants to prove that not everyone follows the vitriol being spewed by Kirill and others in Russia and insists on doing the right — truly Christian — thing.Ever since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of its western neighbour in late February, Father Grigory Mikhnov-Vaytenko has been hard at work helping thousands of Ukrainian refugees in St Petersburg and across Russia.“By the time April…

Pepsi products are displayed for sale in a Target store on March 8, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.Mario Tama | Getty ImagesCheck out the companies making the biggest moves midday Wednesday:Moderna — Shares of Moderna surged 8.28% after the drug maker announced it will partner with Merck to jointly develop and sell a cancer vaccine. Moderna’s vaccine is being studied in combination with Merck’s Keytruda to treat patients with high-risk melanoma in a Phase 2 trial.Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings — Shares of Norwegian rose 11.61% after UBS upgraded the cruise operator to a buy and said its shares can rally…

Jerome Powell and other members of the Federal Reserve are obsessed with choking off inflation once and for all, even if the Fed’s series of aggressive rate hikes slow the economy to a crawl. That could be bad news for consumers, investors and Corporate America. What’s more, many market experts and economists note that the rate of inflation, while still uncomfortably high, is falling and should continue to decline – but there is a noted lag effect. Fed vice chair Lael Brainard admitted as much in a speech Monday, saying that “policy actions to date will have their full effect…